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Adventures worth the drive from the syndicated newspaper/web column by Jim Fox

Welcome

Greetings to the many thousands of readers over the past month from across Canada and the United States, as well as countries including the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, France, India, Australia, Japan, the Ukraine, Mexico, Romania and the Netherlands.

Stratford Festival executive
director Anita Gaffney said its 66th season will welcome the 28-millionth
patron.

So far, 70 per cent
has been raised of the $100-million Spirit of the Tent campaign to build a new
Tom Patterson Theatre Centre.

The new theatre,
designed by architect Siamak Hariri, is to open for the 2020 season.

The curtain will
rise April 17 for Music Man at the Stratford Festival.

This season starts
April 17 with the Music Man and continues until October.

Featured are The
Tempest; Comedy of Errors; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar; Rocky Horror Show; Long
Day’s Journey Into Night; An Ideal Husband; To Kill a Mockingbird; Napoli
Milionaria!; Bronte; and Paradise Lost. stratfordfestival.ca;
1-800-567-1600

Vimy remembered

Georgia Sifton of
the Elgin County Heritage Centre in St. Thomas says the 8th annual Vimy Lecture
will honour those in the First World War combat in France.

The event at the
centre (460 Sunset Drive) on Monday (April 9) at 2 p.m. will recall how 600
Elgin County soldiers fought at the Battle of Vimy Ridge including Lance-Sergeant
Ellis Sifton, a Wallacetown native.

Killed in action
eliminating a German machine gun emplacement, he was posthumously awarded a
Victoria Cross to be displayed that day.